How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension
This article outlines a study that explores the relationship between SMART goal setting (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based) and learning English in Colombia concerning a foreign language learners’ self-efficacy beliefs in listening. The participants were seventh and ninth g...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2014-04-01
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This article outlines a study that explores the relationship between SMART goal setting (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based) and learning English in Colombia concerning a foreign language learners’ self-efficacy beliefs in listening. The participants were seventh and ninth grade students of two schools in Bogotá, Colombia. The results revealed that self-efficacy was highly positive when related to goal setting as students were able to set SMART goals to improve their listening comprehension and learners showed improvement in self-efficacy beliefs and felt more motivated while completing listening tasks related to songs. Furthermore this study shows that goal setting training can be incorporated successfully into the English as a foreign language classroom.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8330951a2f94452398e187124fe0c7a42023-09-10T05:58:31ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272014-04-0121110.19183/how.21.1.14How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening ComprehensionLiliana Ballesteros Muñoz0Silvana Tutistar Jojoa1IED Ciudadela Educativa de Bosa, BogotáIED Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Bogotá This article outlines a study that explores the relationship between SMART goal setting (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based) and learning English in Colombia concerning a foreign language learners’ self-efficacy beliefs in listening. The participants were seventh and ninth grade students of two schools in Bogotá, Colombia. The results revealed that self-efficacy was highly positive when related to goal setting as students were able to set SMART goals to improve their listening comprehension and learners showed improvement in self-efficacy beliefs and felt more motivated while completing listening tasks related to songs. Furthermore this study shows that goal setting training can be incorporated successfully into the English as a foreign language classroom. https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/14Goal settinglisteningmetacognitionself-efficacy |
| spellingShingle | Liliana Ballesteros Muñoz Silvana Tutistar Jojoa How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension HOW Goal setting listening metacognition self-efficacy |
| title | How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension |
| title_full | How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension |
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| title_full_unstemmed | How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension |
| title_short | How Setting Goals Enhances Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Listening Comprehension |
| title_sort | how setting goals enhances learners self efficacy beliefs in listening comprehension |
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